Samuel Smith Kilburn
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Samuel Smith Kilburn (1831—1903) was an engraver in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He trained with Abel Bowen. Kilburn's work appeared in popular periodicals such as Gleason's Pictorial. His business partners included Richard P. Mallory (Kilburn & Mallory)[1][2] and Henry C. Cross.[3] For many years Kilburn worked at 96 Washington Street in Boston (c.1852-1871);[4] he lived in Newton, Massachusetts.[5] Examples of his work are in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum[6] and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.[7]
Image gallery
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S.S. Kilburn, engraver, Washington St., Boston, ca.1865
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Kilburn's Specimens of Designing and Engraving on Wood, ca.1865
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Revere House, Boston, ca.1865
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"Press-- Boston & Fairhaven Iron Co., Fairhaven, Mass.," ca.1865
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Ad for Sweetser & Abbott, carpet dealers, Temple Place, Boston, 1868
Further reading
[edit | edit source]Works by Kilburn
[edit | edit source]- S.S. Kilburn. Specimens of designing and engraving on wood. Boston: ca.1865-1867.
- Works with engraving by Kilburn
- My teacher's gem. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1863
- Oliver Optic's Magazine
- Our Young Folks
Works about Kilburn
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Boston Directory. 1852
- ^ American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, no. 27665
- ^ New England historical and genealogical register. 1904.
- ^ Boston Directory. 1852
- ^ Directory of the town of Newton. 1871
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Samuel Smith Kilburn.
- Works by Samuel Smith Kilburn at Project Gutenberg
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- Not Against Type, blog by Larry Thompson. Image of Thompson's 2009 impression of Kilburn's change of address woodblock. Nov. 25, 2009.
- New York Public Library. Items related to Kilburn.
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